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ENGLISH PAPER – III

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CBSE NET DECEMBER 2014

ENGLISH PAPER – III

1. This work was a satire in Ottava rima,

attacking George III and Robert Southey.

Identify the poem:

(A) Dunciad

(B) The Vision of Judgment

(C) Childe Harold‟s Pilgrimage

(D) Alastor

2. Here‟s a famous exchange from Arthur

Conan Doyle‟s Silver Blaze:

„Is there any point to which you would

wish to draw my attention ?‟

„To the curious incident of the dog in the

night-time.‟

„The dog did nothing in the night-time.‟

What was Sherlock Holmes‟ response ?

(A) „Nothing ? Nothing at all?

Rather unbelievable.‟

(B) „That was the curious incident.‟ (C) „Anything else, at all?‟

(D) „That sounds rather curious, don‟t you

think?‟

3. “The shrill, demented choirs of waiting

shells,

And bugles calling for them from sad

shires.”

These lines are from Wilfred Owen‟s:

(A) “Strange Meeting”

(B) “Futility”

(C) “Anthem for Doomed Youth”

(D) “Duke et Decorum Est”

4. In Aphra Behn‟s Oronooko, how does

the titular character die?

(A) He disembowels himself.

(B) He is whipped to death.

(C) He is hanged in the public square.

(D) He is cut to pieces slowly by the

executioner.

5. The narrative of this novel is a

meticulous, present-tense account of a

woman with a death-wish who plots the

circumstances of her own violent murder.

Identify the novel.

(A) Iris Murdoch‟s A Fairly Honourable

Defeat

(B) Muriel Spark‟s The Driver‟s Seat

(C) Doris Lessing‟s Children of Violence

(D) Angela Carter‟s The Passion of the New

Eve

6. The library where the “Battle of Books”

takes place is .

(A) St. James‟ Library

(B) King‟s Library

(C) Sir William‟s Library

(D) Christ Church Library

7. In Sophocles‟ Oedipus Rex the first scene

finds Oedipus

(A) in conversation with a priest

(B) in consultation with a general

(C) giving audience to an ambassador

(D) in consultation with a minister

8. Who among Shakespeare‟s

contemporaries did not write tragedies?

(A) Thomas Kyd

(B) John Lyly

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) Ben Jonson

9. The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled

Hosseini tells the story of .

(A) Ahmed

(B) Nadira

(C) Amir

(D) Amourrah

10. Thomas Babington Macaulay, the

writer of the infamous Minute of 1835,

finds a mention in Salman Rushdie‟s

(A) Midnight‟s Children

(B) Shame

(C) The Moor‟s Last Sigh

(D) Fury

11. The issue of privileging speech over

writing was taken up for discussion in

Plato‟s :

(A) Ion

(B) RepublicBook III

(C) RepublicBook X

(D) Phaedrus

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12. „The Medium is the Message‟ is a

concept given by

(A) Ernest Hemingway

(B) Sylvia Plath

(C) Seymour Hersh

(D) Marshal McLuhan

13. Seamus Heaney‟s famous poem

“Digging” forms a part of his celebrated

collection called

(A) North

(B) Death of a Naturalist

(C) Field Work

(D) Door into the Dark

(B) 1, 5, 6 are correct.

(C) 1, 3, 5 are correct.

(D) 3, 4, 5 are correct.

17. In 1722 the Crown awarded a certain

English merchant a patent to manufacture

copper coins for Ireland. Jonathan Swift

intervened by way of composing a

series of letters in response, better known

as The Drapier‟s Letters. Who was the

merchant?

(A) Isaac Bickerstaff

(B) William Bickerstaff

(C) William Wood

(D) William Sacheverell

14. The first major report on The Teaching

of English in Englandwas published in

1921. It is known as , named

after the Chair, Board of Education,

.

(A) the Newbolt Report; Sir Henry Newbolt

(B) the Wood‟s Despatch; Charles Wood,

Lord Halifax

(C) the Chatham Report; Earl John Chatham

(D) the Landow Document; Sir George

Landow

15. Who first developed the notion of

„competence‟ in language studies ?

(A) Dell Hymes

(B) Noam Chomsky

(C) Leech and Svartvik

(D) Henry Sweet

16. The fruit was eaten.

The fruit is ripening.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are

correct?

(1) English has two kinds of participle : the

present and the past.

(2) English has three kinds of participle : the

present, the past and the future.

(3) The first sentence here is an example of

a verb in past participle.

(4) The first sentence here is an example of

a verb in the perfect tense.

(5) The second sentence here is an example

of a verb in present participle.

(6) The second sentence here is an example

of a verb in the continuous tense.

(A) 2, 4, 6 are correct.

18. “While the world moves

In appentency on its metalled way

Of time past and time future”

These lines are from:

(A) “Little Gidding”

(B) “Dry Salvages”

(C) “Burnt Norton”

(D) “East Coker”

19. The following is the stage-description of

an opening scene of a famous modern play:

A basement room.Two beds, flat against the

back wall. A serving hatch, closed, between

the beds. A door to the kitchen and lavatory,

left. A door to a passage, right.

Identify the play:

(A) The Importance of Being Earnest

(B) Travesties

(C) The Dumb Waiter

(D) Look Back in Anger

20. „Homonyms‟ are words that

(A) are pronounced differently but have the

same meaning.

(B) refer to both the male and female of the

human species.

(C) are spelt similarly but have different

meanings.

(D) refer to people who live in houses with

similar structures.

21. Match the columns :

Shakespearean Actors Period

I. David Garrick 1. The 19th century

II. John Gielgud 2. The 18th century

III. Henry Irving 3. The Restoration

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IV. Thomas Betterton 4. The 20th

century

I II III IV

(A) 2 4 1 3

(B) 4 2 1 3

(C) 3 4 1 2

(D) 2 3 4 1

22. In his “Structure, Sign, and Play in the

Discourse of the Human Sciences,” Derrida is

all praise for the bricoleur whom Levi-Strauss

sees as a supreme methodologist, “someone

who uses „the means at hand‟.”

Who does Levi-Strauss contrast

bricoleurwith in terms of method and

approach?

(A) The Botanist

(B) The Anthropologist

(C) The Engineer

(D) The Semiotician

23. Heinrich Böll has something to say,

and not of course merely something about

the Germans. He says it several times. A

common weakness of writers with something

to say

is their inability to understand that saying

it four times is not necessarily four times

as effective as saying it once. But to have

something to say – how rare this is !

– D. J. Enright, “Three New Germans”.

From a reading of the above, the reader can

deduce:

I. Enright mildly disapproves of

Heinrich Böll‟s saying not merely

something about Germans.

II. Enright is disappointed that

Heinrich Böll has practically

nothing to say about people other

than Germans.

III. Enright agrees that Heinrich Böll

shares a weakness with writers who

prefer saying something four times to

saying it once.

IV. Enright does not believe that saying

something four timeswill necessarily

make the same effective.

The right combination, according to the code,

is

(A) I and II

(B) II and III

(C) III and IV

(D) I and IV

24. Michel Foucault‟s earlier

“archaeological” study is found in

(A) Power/Knowledge

(B) Social Theory and Transgression

(C) The Birth of the Clinic

(D) Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics

25. Invisible Manby Ralph Ellison is

widely recognized as a masterpiece. It is

also one of the finest examples of

(A) science fiction

(B) picaresque novel

(C) coming-of-age novel

(D) crime thriller

26. Match the following correctly:

List – I List – II

I. Mulk Raj Anand 1. Premashram

II. Raja Rao 2. The Cat and

Shakespeare

III. Prem Chand 3. Coolie

IV. Girish Karnad 4. Nagamandala

I II III IV

(A) 3 2 4 1

(B) 2 3 1 4

(C) 3 2 1 4

(D) 4 3 2 1

27. From which of Sheridan‟s plays the

following extract is taken?

Lady Sneerwell : Why truly Mrs. Clackitt

has a very pretty talent and a great deal

of industry.

Snake : True, Madam, and has been

tolerably successful in her day. To my

knowledge she has been the cause of six

matches being broken off and three sons

disinherited, of four forced elopements ….

Lady Sneerwell: She certainly has talents but

her manner is gross.

(A) The Rivals

(B) The School for Scandal

(C) St. Patrick‟s Day

(D) The Critic

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28. Who, from among the following, has

NOT been discussed by Simon-de-Bevoir

in “The

Myth of Woman in Five Authors” in The

Second Sex?

(A) Montherlant

(B) Lawrence

(C) Stendhal

(D) Kafka

29. In a collection of essays Orhan Pamuk

shares how he writes his novels, tells

about his friendship with his daughter, talks

about his loneliness and happiness.

Identify the text:

(A) Other Colors

(B) The Silent House

(C) The Black Book

(D) The White Castle

30. Two of the following plays won the

Sultan Padamsee Prize for Indian plays in

English :

I. Princes

II. Where There‟s a Will

III. Larins Sahib

IV. Doongaji House

The right combination according to the code

is :

(A) III and IV

(B) I and III

(C) II and III

(D) I and IV

31. Who among the following is NOT an

Australian writer?

(A) Morris West

(B) Patrick White

(C) Thomas Keneally

(D) Bill Pearson

32. After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand,

wrote a number of semi-autobiographical

works to narrate chunks of his own life

through a fictional persona. The name he

gave this persona is .

(A) Lal Singh

(B) Krishan Chander

(C) Puran Singh

(D) Rahul Singh

33. What a mockery this.

Of history, the past and that to come !

Now do I feel how all men are deceived,

Reading of nations and their, in faith,

Faith given to vanity and emptiness …

The prelude

The above extract is from

(A) Book 9 Residence in France

(B) Book 7 Residence in London

(C) Book 3 Residence in Cambridge

(D) Book 4 Summer Vacations

34. While foregrounding the marginal

presence of women in history in A Room of

One’s Own,

Virginia Woolf refers to History of

England.

(A) Campbell‟s

(B) Trevelyan‟s

(C) Sander‟s

(D) Carter‟s

35. Salonieis a play written by Oscar

Wilde written in

(A) English

(B) Irish

(C) French

(D) Italian

36. In More‟s Utopia, the fictional

traveller Raphael Hythloday‟s second

name in Greek means

(A) Dispenser of Justice

(B) Dispenser of Nonsense

(C) Dispenser of Grace

(D) Dispenser of Mercy

37. “You do not dwell in me nor I in you

however much I pander to your name”

These lines from Geoffrey Hill‟s

“Lachrimae” address

(A) Christ

(B) The Devil

(C) The poet‟s beloved

(D) The poet‟s enemy

38. The author of Black Skin, White Masks

is

(A) Ngugi wa Thiong‟o

(B) Frantz Fanon

(C) Richard Wright

(D) Martin Luther King (Jr.

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39. Match the following :

Poet Bird

I. John Keats 1. Hawk

II. P.B. Shelley 2. Falcon

III. G.H. Hopkins 3. Skylark

IV. Ted Hughes 4. Nightingale

I II III IV

(A) 4 3 2 1

(B) 4 3 1 2

(C) 3 4 2 1

(D) 3 4 1 2

40. Who of the following has written the

novel The Return?

(A) Bapsi Sidhwa

(B) V.S. Naipaul

(C) K. S. Maniam

(D) Pankaj Mishra

41. Who among the following is a well-

known Neo-Aristotelian critic ?

(A) R.P. Blackmur

(B) John Crowe Ranson

(C) R.S. Crane

(D) Lionel Trilling

42. Assertion (A): The act of reading a

text is both determinate

and indeterminate.

Reason (R): Since our reading includes

both a sense of the unity of the

narrative held in place at the

end and the different wishes

and guesses made along the

way.

44. Edward Said‟s well-known book

Orientalism was published in

(A) 1978

(B) 1968

(C) 2008

(D) 1988

45. “To the Memory of my Beloved, the

Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And

What He

Hath Left Us” is an ode composed by

(A) John Milton

(B) Ben Jonson

(C) Andrew Marvell

(D) John Suckling

46. Call me Ishmail Tonight is written by

(A) A.K. Ramanujan

(B) Agha Shahid Ali

(C) Saleem Peeradina

(D) Nissim Ezekiel

47. “All fiction for me is a kind of magic or

trickery – a confidence trick.” The

statement has been made by

(A) Angus Wilson

(B) Anthony Powell

(C) John Fowles

(D) George Orwell

48. Here is a list of American words and

word-makers. Match the following:

I. H.L. Mencken 1. Babbit

II. Philip Wylie 2. Yes man

III. Jack Conway 3. Bible belt

IV. Sinclair Lewis 4. Monism

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the

true explanation of (A).

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not

the true explanation of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

43. Girish Karnad‟s Hayavadana,

originally in Kannada, has been translated

into English by

(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy

(B) By the playwright himself

(C) G.S. Amur

(D) A.K. Ramanujan

I II III IV

(A) 4 3 2 1

(B) 3 4 1 2

(C) 3 4 2 1

(D) 4 3 1 2

49. Which of the following in Jacques

Derrida‟s epigraph to his “Structure, Sign

and Play in the Discourse of the Human

Sciences” ?

(A) More body, hence more writing. …….

Helene Cixous.

(B) We need to interpret interpretations

more than to interpret things. ………

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.

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(C) But unlike philosophical reflection,

…. the reflections we are dealing with

here concern rays whose only source

is hypothetical… Claude Levi-Strauss

(D) If Cleopatra‟s nose had been shorter

the whole history of the world would

have been different. ............ Blaise

Pascal.

50. In Mann‟s Death in Venice, death of the

protagonist occurs

(A) in a bar

(B) in a beach

(C) in a church

(D) on the highway

51. Two among the following poets

wrote the “Village” poems that address

the perennial theme of rural poverty :

I. Oliver Goldsmith

II. William Collins

III. Samuel Johnson

IV. George Gabbe

The right combination according to the code

is

(A) I and III

(B) II and III

(C) I and IV

(D) I and II

52. In which of the following works Yeats

developed his theory of „gyres‟?

(A) “A Vision”

(B) “The Secret Rose”

(C) “John Sherman and Dhoya”

(D) “The Celtic Twilight”

53. Mystery and Miracle plays in English

were based on .

(A) English folklore

(B) English legends

(C) Biblical stories

(D) Anglo-Saxon myths

54. When we rewrite a piece of discourse

from one script into another, it is called

.

(A) Translation

(B) Transliteration

(C) Transcreation

(D) Transformation

55. “No wonder then.” Explain.

(A) No wonder that the words here begin to

mean.

(B) No wonder that you now find the words

menacing.

(C) No wonder that the words find you

menacing.

(D) No wonder the words still mean and are

tame.

56. The term “womanism” was first used

by

(A) Helene Cixous

(B) Gayatri Spivak

(C) Kate Millet

(D) Alice Walker

57. Two among the following critics

have dealt with the reproduction of

motherhood in feminist theory :

I. Nancy Chodorow

II. Judith Fetterley

III. Catherine R. Stimpson

IV. Carol Gilligan

The right combination according to the code

is

(A) I and II

(B) II and IV

(C) I and IV

(D) III and IV

58. Flowers is a short play written by

(A) Mahesh Dattani

(B) Asif Currimbhoy

(C) Girish Karnad

(D) Paoli Sengupta

59. Match the columns:

Character Novel

I. Lady Dedlock 1. Vanity Fair

II. Lady Bertram 2. Wives and Daughters

III. Lady Harriet 3. Mansfield Park

IV. Lady Jane 4. Bleak House

I II III IV

(A) 4 2 3 1

(B) 3 2 1 4

(C) 4 3 2 1

(D) 3 4 1 2

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60. “The Books You Needn‟t Read, the

Books Made For Purposes Other Than

Reading,

Books Read Before You Open Them Since

They Belong To The Category of Books

Read

Before Being Written …”

The above extract is taken from

(A) Jorge Luis Borges‟s “The Library of

Babel”

(B) Italo Colvino‟s If on a winter‟s Night a

Traveller

(C) Umberto Eco‟s The Name of the Rose

(D) Francis Bacon‟s “Of Studies”

61. Listed below are the titles of novels and

the sources to which theyare aligned by

readers.

Match them appropriately:

List – I List – II

I. Peter Carey‟s

Jack Maggs 1. Daniel Defoe‟s

Robinson Crusoe

II. J.M. Coetzee‟s Foe 2. Charlotte

Bronte‟s

Jane Eyre

III. Jean Rhys‟s Wide

Sargasso Sea 3. R.M. Ballantyne‟s

The Coral Island

IV. William Golding‟s Lord

of the Flies 4. Charles Dickens‟s

Great

(D) The Duchess of Malfi – Volpone – A

Game of Chess – The City Madam

63. „Nasal tone‟ in speech is a

distinguishing feature of .

(A) British English

(B) Scottish English

(C) Australian English

(D) American English

64. Which of the following writers did

NOT receive the Nobel Prize for

Literature?

(A) Wole Soyinka

(B) Chinua Achebe

(C) J. M. Coetzee

(D) Nadine Gordimer

65. The Decline and Fall of the Roman

Empireby Edward Gibbon is a significant

work in Volumes.

(A) 3

(B) 4

(C) 5

(D) 6

66. The first novel written by Graham

Greene is

(A) Stamboul Train

(B) England Made Me

(C) The Heart of the Matter

(D) The Man Within

Expectations

I II III IV

(A) 4 1 3 2

(B) 4 3 1 2

(C) 4 1 2 3

(D) 4 2 1 3

62. Identify the right chronological

sequence:

(A) The Game of Chess – Volpone – The

Duchess of Malfi – The City Madam

(B) The City Madam – The Duchess of Malfi – Volpone – A Game of Chess

(C) Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – A

Game of Chess – The City Madam

67. From among the Canterbury pilgrims,

which group would qualify as the „upper

class‟ ?

(A) The Pardoner, The Miller, The Nun‟s

Priest

(B) Franklin, Parson, Wife of Bath

(C) The Knight, The Squire, The Prioress

(D) The Reeve, The Manciple, The Clerk

68. Plagiarism is a well-known word and

concept in academic circles. The word

plagiariusin Latin, however, meant

(A) a trickster, a cheat

(B) a quack, a swindler

(C) a loafer, a lout

(D) a torturer, a plunderer

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69. What superstition around the Eve of St.

Agnes is crucial to an understanding John

Keat‟s famous poem?

(A) If a virgin performed the proper ritual

on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would dream

of her future husband.

(B) If a virgin performed the proper ritual

on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would marry

herlover.

(C) If a married woman performed the

proper ritual on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she

would be reunited with her husband.

(D) If a woman performed the proper

ritual on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would

dream of her future lover.

70. Identify the person who sets himself up

as the „Knight‟ with a pestle rather than a

sword in the play The Knight of the

Burning Pestle:

(A) Ralph

(B) Tim

(C) George

(D) Squire

71. Works like The Earthly Paradise,

Dante and His Circle, Goblin Market and

Other Poems and the journal, The

Germare associated with .

(A) the Pre-Raphaelites

(B) Higher Criticism

(C) the Cavalier Poets

(D) the Pre-Romantics

Read the following poem and answer

questions (72to 75):

A Bird came down the Walk –

He did not know I saw –

He bit an Angleworm in halves

And ate the fellow, raw,

And then he drank a Dew

From a convenient Grass –

And then hopped sidewise to the Wall

To let a Beetle pass –

He glanced with rapid eyes

That hurried all around –

They looked like frightened Beads, I thought

–

He stirred his Velvet Head

Like one in danger, Cautious,

I offered him a Crumb

And he unrolled his feathers

And rowed him softer home –

Than Oars divide the Ocean,

Too silver for a seam –

Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon

Leap, plashless as they swim.

72. Is “a convenient Grass” an example of

“transferred epithet”?

(A) Yes, it is. The “convenience” of grass

is transferred from the bird to the poet

who finds grass convenient of access.

(B) Yes, it is. The grass is not

“convenient”, but is transferred from

the bird who finds the grass

convenient of access.

(C) No. It is a regular epithet. (D) No. It is not an epithet in the strict

sense.

73. Which of the following is NOT an

example of kinetic imagery?

(A) “unrolled his feathers”

(B) “hopped sidewise”

(C) “Velvet Head”

(D) “rowed him”

74. The poem stages an encounter between:

(A) the human and the non-human

(B) distrust of the non-human about the

humans

(C) two old friends

(D) two old enemies

75. “Like one in danger …” Who is in

danger?

(A) The Bird

(B) The Poet

(C) The Angleworm

(D) Frightened Beads

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